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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:
Item
[Mrs Roberts' family home], 1908-08-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/27
Scope and Contents
144 x 85 mm. A view from the lawn showing the family home of Mrs Roberts. Exact location unknown.
Dates:
1908-08-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Organization
Item
M/S Polar Bjorn leaving Newcastle, 19 June 1924, 1924-06-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/204
Scope and Contents
165 x 120 mm.
Dates:
1924-06-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Organization
MS Publishing Limited (Publisher) (c 1970s-1980s) (United Kingdom)
Organization
Dates:
Existence: 1970 - 1989
Person
Person
Mulheron, Danny, fl 1980s-2020s (Screenwriter and Television Director)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1989 - 2021
Item
Mural and chandelier, 1967
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilf/14
Scope and Contents
152 x 187 mm. (2 copies).
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Mural in the Entrance Hall, marking the Society’s centenary in 1968, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/Ilf/13
Scope and Contents
The mural was the work of Mick Pilcher (born 1929) whose work included murals in the University of Ibadan, the Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, and the Anglo-American Corporation Building in Lusaka. The RCS mural showed the flags of the Commonwealth, each within the geographical outline of their country: all were of equal size to indicate equality of status. Space was left for additions, but these were never made, and as the mural became soiled and unsightly it was eventually removed. 155 x...
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Person
Murray, Len, OBE, 1922-2004 (Baron Murray of Epping Forest, Politician)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1922 - 2004
Item
Muzzles of the 12 in guns showing Lord Charles Bulldog : King Edward VII, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5017
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
My duties as best man do not prevent me having a quiet game, 1908-08-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/28
Scope and Contents
142 x 84 mm. Showing Commander Green, in civilian clothes, playing croquet with two ladies on the lawn of Mrs. Roberts' family's home.
Dates:
1908-08-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
My father in his suitcase: in search of E.J.H. Corner the relentless botanist, 2013
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS/374/1
Scope and Contents
This a biography of Corner written by his son John K. Corner.
Dates:
2013
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
My motorboat at a picnic, Bermuda, May 1908, 1908-05
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/8
Scope and Contents
118 x 92 mm. Showing two boats filled with naval cadets in a bay in Bermuda. Lieutenant Frederick Talbot-Ponsonby is crouched in the prow of the left-hand boat.
Dates:
1908-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Person
Person
Item
Namkaddi. Envoy from Uganda, 1880
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045E/2
Scope and Contents
103 x 148 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of the lightly bearded Namkaddi, wearing a polo-necked jersey and with a tunic knotted at the shoulder.
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
Missing, please see duplicate at Y3045O/2.
Item
Napoleon's House, Longwood, St Helena, 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/10
Scope and Contents
200 x 137 mm. General view of the single storey house occupied by Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile and imprisonment on Saint Helena from 1815 until his death in 1821.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Views of St Helena
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Napoleon's Tomb, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30482B/12
Scope and Contents
139 x 204 mm. View from the hillside above looking down on the grove containing the railings and slab which mark the site of Napoleon's tomb. The body was exhumed and returned to France in 1840.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Views of St Helena
Item
Napoleon's Tomb, St Helena, 1884-01-16 - 1884-01-22
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/54
Scope and Contents
139 x 211 mm. Showing the tombstone, surrounded by metal railings, in Sane Valley (also known as Geranium Valley) where there was a spring from which Napoleon ordered his drinking water to be collected. Hiscorpse was placed in four coffins, one of tin, one of mahogany, one of lead and another of mahogany with the result that when the body was removed for reburial in France in 1840 it was in almost perfect condition.
Dates:
1884-01-16 - 1884-01-22
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Sydney Tyers album
Item
Naval Gunmounting Dept, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 21/5160
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing a row of 4.2 in guns.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Naval gunners, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011V/19
Scope and Contents
351 x 264 mm. Showing two sailors posed with a naval gun mounted on a railway trolley. Photograph stamped 'Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co, Ltd.'
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Unknown
"Navy Estimates", 18 Mar 1912
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/42/1-22
Scope and Contents
Typescript speaking notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: naval armaments; detailed explanation of the naval estimates and predictions; increase of German naval power; the importance of maintaining the fleet at the minimum level "consistent with full security"; plans for construction of ships which will be modified to follow German naval construction; docks; oil; aviation and shipbuilding capacity; the importance of a strong fleet to Great Britain; plans for the...
Dates:
18 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open